Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
And many miles be still to go
But under a tall tree I will lie,
And let the clouds go sailing by.
Notes
From chapter 4: A Short Cut to Mushrooms
This is sung by the hobbits as the rest on their way to Buckland.
Frodo propped his back against the tree-trunk, and closed his eyes. Sam and Pippin sat near, and they began to hum, and then to sing softly:
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This is like my absolute favorite drinking song! I love it! TOLKIEN RULES!!!!!
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...that's telling them!
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Tolkien is just amazing! (and South African by birth) So many different styles and abilities -my hero!
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Cool in an alcoholic sort of way
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I remember my friend writing this out for me...
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Aeeeee... such a shwweet write.. tolkien rocks !
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Hey, Ho! To the Bottle I Go
source song
featured in
A Night at the Green Dragon
(FOTR EE)
(Not on the Soundtrack CD)
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Music composed by Fran Walsh
Words by J.R.R. Tolkien
FOTR, Bk. 1, Ch. 4, A Short Cut to Mushrooms
FOTR, Bk. 1, Bh 5, A Conspiracy Unmasked
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This song is sung by Merry and Pippin as they stand on a table at the Green Dragon. Peter Jackson says in the FOTR EE Audio Commentary that Fran Walsh wrote the tune after playing with the lyrics a little.
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First of all i'am sorry for my orrible english...
But i don't think that this poetry is been written by Tolkien... -
This is quite a surprise to find for me. I was aware of his reproductions of some older pieces in Saxon, and Anglo tongues, but was unaware of any poetry he did outside of those pieces.
I used to have a book of his from 1955, Poems of AngloSaxon verses, where he had done the poems and then transcribed the more modern translations next to the verses. -
I get this picture of an old salt sundering with rum bottle in hand .Toward a grove of palm trees on a carribean white sand beach.To crash beneath them in slumber.Short and thrifty on the words.But what perfectly descritive words. Suseann
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